the cranberries and yams to come to room temp, made thepioneerwomancooks.com green beans and laid on the couch waiting for death. Forced the non-cooking types to pitch in and make the salad of romaine, gala apple chips, bacon,...

I’m going to avoid ranting about the Cheesecake Factory/Macaroni Grill because that’s been done to death. 2 Amys. You can use the best ingredients in the world and still end up with a burnt pie in a poorly ventilated...

genuinely upset with me when I explained that I did not have any of those foods in the house. Anyone with friends who are fearful eaters but great company has probably developed a few strategies to manage outings together. The...

, cheeses and baked goods. Waterfront restaurants and quick cafés. A professional cooking school. A chef’s hall of fame. Specialty retail shops. An exposition of California food and wine companies and producers, and agricultural...

Actually, I think it’s “Sea Legs” - there might even be a company marketing them under this name.

painful for her to eat, she ate every last bite. So every year on the anniversary of her death (lunar calendar) I make it for her. Life is uncertain. While your mom said she would have never given up smoking, she may have died in...

for the lucky oldest kid. It was a humble home but we had a 180 degree view of the ocean and a “private” beach – because it was behind a locked gate at the oil company marine terminal and pretty much too far to...

town; everything is delivered by the one taxi company that unfortunaly tends to sometimes employ some unsavoury characters..anyway, delivery charges/taxi fare are included in the bill (not the issue here). Anyway, the guy comes,...

Ah, we part company here. Burnt bacon is... just burnt. And crispy bacon is bacon with the fat, that is the flavour, cooked out of it. It’s just salt and crackle. Crispy bacon tastes like pork rinds but has a less...

this place. When I worked for the Big 5, and they gave us the company credit card, Shaws was always the first place we thought of. Yes, it is costly. Fresh seafood is. Yet where else can you get this kind of stuff, the lake...

food companies want you to.

educational. Moved to the midwest and we continued to eat out once we moved. The habit didn’t stop until college, when it all died an ignominious death, thanks to a midwestern college town and a severe lack of funds. Then...

these days and it is highly unlikely that one would contract it from undercooked pork. If you are using “older” recipes, they won’t be adjusting for those two factors and will basically call for cooking pork to...

that it is not mandatory you determine what the servers intention was, but it is “good enough” to use the “should have known better” test.] “lame joke” != mean spirited comment. note the OP...

with bravo and not, would be able to toe the company line and explain away the “arbitrary” elimination decisions.